Heart box with template and tutorial

This is a tutorial written for the magazine - Ett trykk, February 2016

My first item in print, was a little paper dress, created from coffee filters, in a heart box. The box was based on a the shape for many similar boxes found online. I really like this shape, and like the way the box opens at the top, just by squeezing it. 

Original blog post.

Heart box tutorial

Materials:

Paper: Maja design, Summer time - Smell the roses. White bazzill og acetate. 

Ink: Archival Inkpad - Jet Black, Tim Holtz: Vintage Photo - Distress Ink Pad 

Template:

Tutorial:

Cut out the pieces according to the template. Score along the dashed lines. 

If you want a transparent front, use acetate for the front piece. Also cut an extra piece of the heart top in Bazzill. 

Fold along the scored lines. There are only a few types of glues that will stick to acetate. Use a good double sided tape like score tape. Mount the little top of the heart, to the front of the acetate, at the front of the box. 

Mount panels to the inside of the box. It is important that you decorate the box inside, before you mount it together. This decoration is difficult to do, after you have mounted the box together. 

Glue under one of the squares at the bottom, and glue that square over the other. This is creating the bottom of the box. 

The bottom of the box has been mounted together. The inside of the box has been decorated.

Mount Score tape on all the acetate glue tags. 

Mount the acetate tags, under the box. Then, mount the acetate tags at the side of the box, at the back - outside the box. It could be a good idea, to keep the back strips of the Score tape on, until you are going to glue ut. 

The box itself, has been created. Add the panels in patterned paper to the back, and under the box. a piece of patterned panel paper to the front - top heart. 

The box is now finished with panels, and can be decorated.

The front of the box, has been simply decorated with a home made flower, a small text and leaves.

The back of the box has been simply decorated with a stamped text, roses from Wild Orchid

and Mathia flowers.

Christmas with Maja's Nyhavn

This year, I have been guest designer for the magazine, Ett trykk. My challenge for the October issue was to create an advent calendar. Being a magazine, the photos has to be delivered quite a long time before the magazine is out in the shops. This calendar was made in June. Nyhavn was one of the relatively new collections from Maja in June. I was inspired by the houses in Nyhavn and the houses on the papers, when I created this calendar.  Each house, with the base is 20cm x 11cm x 23 cm

In the beginning of December, the calendar will be full of small gifts. Very little light will shine through the windows, because the gifts will stop the light shining through. As Desember passes, and the gifts are opened, the light will shine though more, and more windows. This calendar is there just as nice before the gifts are opened, as afterwards. 

There is room for electric tea lights inside the calendar. There is also room for led lights inside the houses. 

The houses are stuck down to the base with magnets. The houses can therefore swap places or be turned around. 

 

There is a small Victorian conservatory at the end of one of the houses. I have added a small Christmas tree with led lights, inside the conservatory. 

All the windows and doors can be opened, to collect the advent gifts. All the windows and doors are hinged with handmade silver paper hinges.

There is room for larger advents gifts inside the roofs.

The roof on one of the houses, can be removed, and the advent gift can be retrieved from under the roof.

Materials: Bazzill, Maja design - Nyhavn. Base: Maja design – Nyhavn - King’s square. House: Maja design – Nyhavn - Sitting at the dock, Romantic lunch and A dockside in bloom. Roof: Maja design – Nyhavn - Veteran ships, King’s square. Small sledge: Maja design – Nyhavn - Sitting at the dock. Windows; White Bazzill and Vellum. Other: Handles for the roof: KaiserCraft - Metal Drawer Knob – Silver. Windows and doors: Poppystamps - Dies - Madison House. 

October issue of the magazine Ett trykk.

Wishing you all a merry Christmas